I knew it!!🦏 we will keep fighting! Success Marks Milestone in Major Efforts to Save the Critically Endangered Northern White Rhino from Extinction!-🙏💛🦏😭 - Researchers at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research announced Thursday morning that they have confirmed the pregnancy of Victoria, a southern white rhino living at the Nikita Khan Rhino Rescue Center. The pregnancy, created through artificial insemination with sperm from a male southern white rhino, is an important milestone in the ongoing work to develop the scientific knowledge required to genetically recover the northern white rhino, a distant subspecies of the southern white rhino. There are only two female northern white rhinos left on earth. - - “The confirmation of this pregnancy through artificial insemination represents an historic event for our organization but also a critical step in our effort to save the northern white rhino,” said Barbara Durrant, Ph.D., director of Reproductive Sciences, San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research. “The sperm had excellent motility and the procedure went very well - - we are excited to confirm that the pregnancy has occurred, but we have a long time before we can declare a real success with the birth of a healthy southern white rhino baby.” Rhino gestation lasts from 16-18 months and the artificial insemination of Victoria occurred on March 22nd. 👏💛🦏 - This could be the solution to bring Sudan’s species back from certain extinction in the wild! 🙏💛🦏😭 - - Note* WAN & Peace 4 Animals does not support captivity, but does support any efforts to save endangered species from extinction in the wild! - 🌍👉@worldanimalnews @peace_4animals #repost @worldanimalnews with

Sudan: Last Male Northern White Rhino Just because of our selfish behavior we lost a magnificent creature. Sudan, who was 45, lived at the @olpejeta Conservancy in Kenya. He was put to sleep on 19 March, 2018 after age related complications. His death leaves only two females — his daughter and granddaughter of the subspecies (white rhino) alive in the world. His demise shows nothing but how humans disregard nature; if anything, it's another chapter that shows how low our kind can go to satisfy our unnecessary needs. Few weeks later, a Chinese man was caught smuggling 5 rhino horns and 4 other poached items and was sentenced to jail for ONLY 1 year. Greed has really destroyed humanity — it gave us the power to be world's biggest predator and only we can stop it — We CAN stop before it's too late to save the whole planet. -------------------------------------------------------------- Tinder and Sudan: He was listed as "The Most Eligible Bachelor in the World" by the dating app @tinder last year in partnership with the conservancy, in a campaign to heighten awareness and raise $9 million to save the species. #sudan#rhinoceros#rhino#savewildlife#saveanimals#africa#savannah#lastwhiterhino#northern#white#horns#hunting#stoppoaching#hakunamipaka#wildlifeartist#art#painting#wildlife#wildlifeart#wwf#nature

Amazing presentation @wildlifefilmfest by @amivitale So inspirational and moving. She tells stories about the animals and people that together are connected, while truely caring about the individuals and story she is telling. #iwff2018#lastwhiterhino#panda#storytelling

Regrann from @hangbalance - How shocking it was, to see this on the news today. The last Northern White Rhino, feeling extremely shit knowing that our specie destroyed their blood line, because of us all their family died. Because of what? We don't need anything from them, but these poor poachers may needed to feed their families so they had to do anything including ending another specie. Human are naturally not selfish until they grow up in this fked up society, people don't support each other. Leaders whom not supposed to be leaders. Weapons and greed, wars and tears, hunger and death. Sad world all because some motherfkers decided that they have so much money that there isn't anything that they can't try anymore, so they starts taking lives because money get you out of anything apparently. Sad... Seriously sad. Next minute rich people will be killing people cause money gets you crazy having no purpose in life, but so rich you can get out of everything. Wait this is already happening... Just please all these brainless people die off so the new generation with more awareness may help this planet. #lastwhiterhino#extinction - #regrann